Question

Read the dialogues. Choose the requests with the correct register. Correct the requests with the incorrect register. Use each request in the Phrasebook once only.

1 You to a passenger on a bus:

Do you think you could open the window, please?✓ 2 You to the head teacher:

Can you turn on the heating, please?

You to your sister: Would you mind getting some water from the outhouse,

4 You to your mum:

Could you iron my new shirt, please?

5 You to a friend's dad: Hold the tent frame, please.

6 You to a new neighbour:

Could you make less noise, please?

Answer 1

Do you think you could open the window, please? (correct)

Could you turn on the heating, please? (incorrect - more polite request would be "Would it be possible to turn on the heating, please?")

Would you mind getting me some water, please? (incorrect - the request is for the sister to do something, not get something for the speaker)

Could you please iron my new shirt? (correct)

Could you please hold the tent frame? (correct)

Could you please keep the noise down? (correct)

Answer 2

2 You to the head teacher:

Could you please turn on the heating?

3 You to your sister:

Could you please get some water from the outhouse?

4 You to your mum:

Can you please iron my new shirt?

5 You to a friend's dad:

Would you mind holding the tent frame, please?

6 You to a new neighbor:

Can you please make less noise?
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